Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.

Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us to become aware, to become free.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.